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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] Sparse file support
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Jakob Unterwurzacher |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] Sparse file support |
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Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:03:23 +0100 |
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Am 04.01.2011 16:33, schrieb Dominic Raferd:
> So I guess it is forward-compatible, but not backward-compatible?
> Existing repositories can be read fine with rdiff-backup patched for
> sparse file support, but repositories created with sparse file support
> cannot be read by unpatched rdiff-backup.
Looking at the patch, it only changes the way blocks of zeroes are
written to disk - they are "written" as holes in the files instead.
As sparse file are completely transparent to user-space so there should
be no compatability issues whatsoever!
Jakob
- [rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] Sparse file support, Eric Wheeler, 2011/01/02
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- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] Sparse file support, Eric Wheeler, 2011/01/03
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] Sparse file support, Dominic Raferd, 2011/01/04
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] Sparse file support, D. Kriesel, 2011/01/04
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] Sparse file support, Dominic Raferd, 2011/01/06
- AW: [rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] Sparse file support, D. Kriesel, 2011/01/08
- Re: AW: [rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] Sparse file support, Dominic Raferd, 2011/01/08
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] Sparse file support,
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